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▪ I. unˈrest, n.
[un-1 4, 12. Cf. WFris. on-, ûnrêst, MLG., MHG. unreste; MDu. onraste (Du. onrast), MLG., MHG. unraste (G. unrast); MDu. onruste (Du. onrust), MLG. unruste (LG. unrust, unrüst, unrost), and wanrest.]
Absence of rest; disturbance, turmoil, trouble.
a1340Hampole Psalter lxxxiv. 8 Þe vnrest of þis life. Ibid. cxviii. 165 Charite puttis away..vnrest of thoght. c1374Chaucer Troylus iv. 879 That cause is of þis sorwe and þis vnreste. 14..Rule Syon Monast. liii. in Collect. Topogr. (1834) I. 31 In the dortour..none schal..make any noise of unreste, aboute makyng of ther beddes. c1440Gesta Rom. xlvii. 196 (Harl. MS.), Wher so euer..eny discorde or vnrest was regnynge. a1513Fabyan Chron. vii. 417 Which tourned hym to great dishonoure and his lordes to great vnrest. 1559Mirr. Mag. (1563) V iv, Furth streamde the teares, recordes of his vnrest. 1638W. Sclater Serm. Experimentall 50 A sweet soliloquie of David with his soul, checking it..for the disquiet, and unrest it passionately had plunged it self into. 1685Dryden tr. Lucretius iii. 273 If the foolish race of man..Cou'd find as well the cause of this unrest, And all this burden lodg'd within the breast. 1815Byron Parisina v, And mutters she in her unrest A name. 1849Robertson Serm. Ser. i. i. (1866) 10 The unrest and the agony that lie hid in the heart of man. 1873Symonds Grk. Poets i. 18 To the anarchy and unrest of transition succeeds the demand for constitutional order.
b. In pl. Somewhat rare.
1477Earl Rivers (Caxton) Dictes (1877) 17 Of thought cometh the wakyngis and vnrestis. 1513Douglas æneid xiii. ii. 74 Be all wais noysum and onrestis, And all that horribill was. c1611Chapman Iliad viii. 405 Both Goddesses..contriving still afflicted Troy's unrests. 1628Wither Brit. Rememb. vi. 1957 Nor, thereby, many other mens unrests Occasion they alone.
▪ II. † unˈrest, v. Obs.
[un-2 3.]
trans. To disturb, trouble.
1382Wyclif 1 Sam. xxvi. 14 Who art thou that criest, and vnrestist the kyng? c1430Life St. Kath. (1884) 49 A Cyte..whom noon aduersite troubleth..ne noon heuynesse vnresteth. c1440Pallad. on Husb. vi. 174 Good is hem to sle, For they the swarm vnrestith. |